Improvement in combined shirt bosom and collar



1). MQPAR AND, Combined Shirt Bosom and Collar.

. V Patented Sept. 17 1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL MOFARLAND, OF BOONVILLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SHIRT BOSOM AND COL LAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,191, datedSeptember 17, 1878; application filed June 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL MCFARLAND, of Boonville, in the county ofCooper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Combined Bosom and Collar for Shirts, of which the following is aspecification The subject of my invention is a separate or false bosomfor shirts, with a collar attached at the center and one of the uppercorners of the bosom, the other extremities of the collar and bosombeing provided with tabs and holes for buttoning at the back and front,respectively, of the neck-band of the shirt.

The object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive substitute fora laundried shirt, with the least possible expenditure and material.

To this end I make the neck-band of my detachable bosom short'on oneside, where it is attached to the collar, and provide it with anextension on the other side for buttoning at the back of the neck.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure1 is a perspective view of the at tachment open, in readiness forputting on the person. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, closedand buttoned.

B represents the bosom; O, the collar, and A the customary button-holetab for the attachment of the waistband of the drawers. The extremity cof the collar 0 is attached to the bosom at the center of the neck-band,and, together with said band, is provided with a button-hole, 0 for thereception of a button, D, by which it is attached to the neck-band ofthe shirt. The center of the collar is provided with the customarybutton-hole for buttoning to the shirt at back. The short end b of thebosom-band is attached to the collar. The other extremity of the collard is free, and is provided with a button-hole for buttoning at the frontof the neck, as shown in Fig. 2.

The free corner of the bosom is provided with a tab or extension, e,with a hole, e, for buttoning at the back of the neck, as shown in Fig.2.

It is my intention to manufacture the combined attachment of paper, andto fasten the collar to the bosom at the collar-button, and also at onetop corner of the bosom by cementing or other means; but the parts maybe detachably connected, or the connection may extend continuously fromthe collar-button to the corner of the bosom.

The attachment may be made of linen if pre ferred.

I am aware that shirts opening at back have been made with collars.attached on one side and free at the other, as shown in the patent ofWolf and Jackson, March 7,1876. This, therefore, I do not claim; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combined false bosom and collar B G, the bosom being extended on oneside only by a button-hole tab, 6, to the back of the neck, and thewhole constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposeherein described.

DANIEL MGFARLAND.

W'itnesses:

O. M. WILSON, T. M. MoNUL'rY.

